[GAP Forum] The stability of group libraries

[Dmitrii Pasechnik]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:24:11PM -0000, Stefan Kohl wrote:
> obviously a definitive answer to your question needs to be left to the
> authors of the group libraries in question, but I have seen so many references
> to e.g. SmallGroup(n,k) for particular values n and k in the literature that
> it would likely cause major disruption if this would suddenly be a different group.

If I recall right, there are (otherwise independent from GAP) software packages that identify
groups by their "GAP numbers", e.g. PARI/GP does this.

Just in case,
Dima